Blackwood's Magazine, Volum 219W. Blackwood, 1926 |
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Side 6
... arrived , and the rival. Musa looked at him reproach- fully . It was not thus , he explained , that Chippenah wished for peace . There had been wars enough . No ; what he would like was to have a friendly meeting with Fiki Mo hamed , so ...
... arrived , and the rival. Musa looked at him reproach- fully . It was not thus , he explained , that Chippenah wished for peace . There had been wars enough . No ; what he would like was to have a friendly meeting with Fiki Mo hamed , so ...
Side 7
At length the great day arrived , and the rival chief- tains set out , each with a goodly following , for the miniature Field of the Cloth of Gold . a bottle of slightly corked cham- pagne , and before they sought a well - earned repose ...
At length the great day arrived , and the rival chief- tains set out , each with a goodly following , for the miniature Field of the Cloth of Gold . a bottle of slightly corked cham- pagne , and before they sought a well - earned repose ...
Side 8
... arrived , and that the Mek himself had apparently entered one of the straw shelters , for he was nowhere to be seen . Groups of warriors were sitting on the ground , and a few women were drawing water for them from one of the wells . 66 ...
... arrived , and that the Mek himself had apparently entered one of the straw shelters , for he was nowhere to be seen . Groups of warriors were sitting on the ground , and a few women were drawing water for them from one of the wells . 66 ...
Side 10
... arrived at the mountain only to be turned back by the people , who said that the Mek was ill and could see no one . On top of this had come a letter from Bimbashi Hawk- wood with the startling intelli- the cause of the failure was gence ...
... arrived at the mountain only to be turned back by the people , who said that the Mek was ill and could see no one . On top of this had come a letter from Bimbashi Hawk- wood with the startling intelli- the cause of the failure was gence ...
Side 12
... arrival the Governor called a council of war , consisting of himself , Budgeon , and Hart- nett , the officer commanding the company of Sudanese . He stated the case to them as follows : - - Firstly , Chippenah had ex- pressed a desire ...
... arrival the Governor called a council of war , consisting of himself , Budgeon , and Hart- nett , the officer commanding the company of Sudanese . He stated the case to them as follows : - - Firstly , Chippenah had ex- pressed a desire ...
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Side 728 - I hail this interchange of sentiment, therefore, as an augury that whatever else may happen, whatever misfortune may befall your country or my own, the peace and friendship which now exist between the two nations will be, as it shall be my desire to make them, perpetual.
Side 435 - poets in especial, prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy— an ecstatic intuition; and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes at the elaborate and vacillating crudities of thought
Side 387 - Then the boys who are bending and watching on the outside, mark them: they are most useful players, the dodgers, who seize on the ball the moment it rolls out from amongst the chargers, and away with it across to the opposite goal. They seldom go into the scrummage, but must have more coolness than the chargers.
Side 435 - in a word, at the wheels and pinions, the tackle for scene-shifting, the step-ladders and demon-traps, the cock's feathers, the red paint and black patches, which in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred constitute the properties of the literary histrio.
Side 133 - has not yet quite found his groove and settled down to his work, and so he is just asserting his personal liberty a little, going where he likes, assembling where he likes, bawling as he likes, hustling as he likes. Just as the rest of us,
Side 270 - many other folks who learn to undervalue the means by which they have risen, has behaved, or rather suffered his partner to behave, very uncivilly towards me. But they may both live to know that they should not have kicked down the ladder till they were sure of their footing/
Side 270 - Constable, or rather that Bear his partner, has behaved to me of late not very civilly, and I owe Jeffrey a flap with a foxtail on account of his review of ' Marmion,' and thus doth the whirligig of time bring about my revenges.